Roman imperial civilisation by Harold Mattingly(
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)46
editions published
between
1957
and
1971
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
1,450 WorldCat member
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Scholarly survey of the Roman Empire, its history, culture, economy, cities, religion and society

St. John Damascene: Barlaam and Ioasaph by Joan(
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)103
editions published
between
1914
and
2015
in
4
languages
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1,434 WorldCat member
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One of the best known examples of the hagiographic novel, this is the tale of an Indian prince who becomes aware of the world's
miseries and is converted to Christianity by the monk Barlaam. Barlaam and Josaphat (Ioasaph) were believed to have re-converted
India after her lapse from conversion to Christianity, and they were numbered among the Christian saints. Centuries ago likenesses
were noticed between the life of Josaphat and the life of the Buddha; the resemblances are in incidents, doctrine, and philosophy,
and Barlaam's rules of abstinence resemble the Buddhist monk's. But not till the mid-nineteenth century was it recognised
that, in Josaphat, the Buddha had been venerated as a Christian saint for about a thousand years. The origin of the story
of Barlaam and Ioasaph--which in itself has little peculiar to Buddhism--appears to be a Manichaean tract produced in Central
Asia. It was welcomed by the Arabs and by the Georgians. The Greek romance of Barlaam appears separately first in the 11th
century. Most of the Greek manuscripts attribute the story to John the Monk, and it is only some later scribes who identify
this John with John Damascene (ca. 676-749). There is strong evidence in Latin and Georgian as well as Greek that it was the
Georgian Euthymius (who died in 1028) who caused the story to be translated from Georgian into Greek, the whole being reshaped
and supplemented. The Greek romance soon spread throughout Christendom, and was translated into Latin, Old Slavonic, Armenian,
and Arabic. An English version (from Latin) was used by Shakespeare in his caskets scene in The Merchant of Venice. David
M. Lang's Introduction traces parallels between the Buddhist and Christian legends, discusses the importance of Arabic versions,
and notes influences of the Manichaean creed

Christianity in the Roman Empire by Harold Mattingly(
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)21
editions published
between
1955
and
1967
in
English
and held by
906 WorldCat member
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The man in the Roman street by Harold Mattingly(
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)20
editions published
between
1947
and
2011
in
English
and held by
893 WorldCat member
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Looks at the changing attitudes and way of life in the Roman Empire from 27 B.C. to 395 A.D

The Agricola ; and, the Germania by Cornelius Tacitus(
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)30
editions published
between
1948
and
2010
in
English
and held by
552 WorldCat member
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"Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last major writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books
in AD 98. He was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended 'fifteen years of enforced silence'.
These first products were brief: the biography of his late father-in-law Julius Agricola and an account of Rome's most dangerous
enemies, the Germans. As governor for seven years, Agricola had completed the conquest of Britain and much of Tacitus' biography
is devoted to the country and its people. Germany is the only surviving specimen from the ancient world of an ethnographic
study. Each of these early works has had immense influence on our perception of Rome and the northern 'barbarians'." "This
newly translated edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history, including recently discovered
evidence on Tacitus' early career."--Jacket

A history of Roman religion by Franz Altheim(
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)9
editions published
between
1938
and
1972
in
English and German
and held by
464 WorldCat member
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Germania by Cornelius Tacitus(
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)3
editions published
in
2009
in
English
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163 WorldCat member
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The 'Germania' of Tacitus is the most extensive account of the ancient Germans written during the Roman period. This new translation,
introduction and commentary provides an up-to-date guide to the relevant literary and archaeological evidence